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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
It could but since there are a very large number of possible ligatures this would just slow things down a lot
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see
http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf
I think for these kind of ligatures there are only a handful ones common in english.
0xfb00 to 0xfb04 are VERY common.
0xfb05 is rare, I even think there are additional rules that it is only used for some specific words. This one is so rare that I cant even be bothered to goole for the specific rules associated with it...
The ligatures fb00 to fb04 are very common and often used since they look so much better than the individual characters.
Just having an automatic translation of these 5 ligatures probably cover the vast majority of ligatures a calibre user will ever encounter.
Best of course would be to have the reader updated somehow so that it supports these 5 ligatures but that might be difficult. There is a reason these ligatures are used in printed media and books, they do look much better than the individual characters.
regards
ronnie sahlberg